They can however be recycled easily in a new wood-plastic composite, much like concrete.
Kitchen cabinets are too bulky and cumbersome to be easily recycled.
A similar prediction for platinum use in fuel cells notes that the metal could be easily recycled.
Because aluminum can be easily recycled, it has been able to reduce the amount of raw material needed to make the same product.
Can the product be repaired, remanufactured, disassembled or recycled easily?
Therefore, cross-linked products like car tires cannot be recycled easily.
On the other hand, water vapor is easily recycled, but this recycling changes the energy balance in the thin atmosphere.
Although cardboard accounts for only a small fraction of waste produced by the company, it has the advantage of being easily recycled.
And polystyrene foam is an ideal place to start, since it is easily recycled.
But she added: "We have learned time and time again that if a material is pure, it can be recycled easily.